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General Offices: Burbank Bldg., Market and Beale Sts. 
San Francisco, California 



THIS BOOK COPYRIGHTED 1914, BY THE LUTHER BURBANK CO. 



BURBANK CACTUS BOOK 

SEASON 1914 



PUBLISHED BY 



The Luther Burbank Company 

SPINELESS CACTUS : SEEDS : PLANTS : TREES 
Sole Distributer of the Burbank Horticultural Productions 



SUCCESSOR TO 

LUTHER BURBANK 



General Offices 
SECOND FLOOR BURBANK BUILDING 

MARKET AND BEALE STREETS 

San Francisco, California, U. S. A. 

store and salesrooms 
301-303-305 Market Street, San Francisco 

exhibit and stereopticon hall 
Burbank Building, San Francisco 

los angeles office 
402 Van Nuys Building 

Experiment Farms, Santa Rosa, California 
Not Open to the Public 

Proving Grounds, Sebastopol, California 
Not Open to the PubHc 

demonstration station 

Meek Orchards, Hayward, California 

Open to the PubHc 

nurseries located in 
Sonoma County and Alameda County, California 

Seed Farms, Santa Clara Valley, California 

Spineless Cactus Nurseries, Santa Rosa and Livermore Valley 

Warehouse and Distributing Point. Oakland, California 

Address all Communications to the General Offices at 
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 

Cable Address "Burbank," San Francisco 
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'^^,^X IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 

On account of the constant addition of new varieties, the nursery and 
seed stock of The Luther Burbank Company is now the largest and most 
complete in the West and one of the very largest in America. The Spineless 
Cactus stock is the only complete and by far the largest in existence. The 
reasons for this are the unusual facilities for plant propagation, the extensive 
experiment and proving grounds, the seed farms and nurseries in various 
sections of the State and a highly specialized organization. 

The Luther Burbank Company is the sole distributer of the Burbank 
Horticultural Productions, and from no other source can one be positively 
assured of obtaining genuine Burbank creations. Luther Burbank is now 
freed from all encroachments upon his time and energies which the introduc- 
tion of his productions entailed and now devotes his entire efforts to the 
creation of new forms of plant life and improvement of old. 

Each day brings Luther Burbank new honors and a steadily increasing 
admiration, not only for w^hat he has done, but for the new things he is ac- 
complishing in plant production. His original creations are no longer confined 
to his own proving grounds or an immediate environment. Through The 
Luther Burbank Company, the world at large now procures the latest mate- 
rializations of Burbank's distinguishing genius. 

Many hundreds of these productions, absolutely new to mankind 
and more useful and valuable than those now known, are already 
complete and await introduction. 

To give each purchaser a guarantee of receiving original Burbank crea- 
tions, this corporation has originated a trade-mark, a facsimile of which will 
be seen on the front cover of this catalog. The name "Burbank" has been so 
indiscriminately and fraudulently used by unscrupulous dealers that it has 
been in danger of losing, in a measure, its true significance. Each package of 
seed and each plant sent out from this company has this trade-mark on it. 
All fraudulent users of the same will be vigorously prosecuted and any infor- 
mation that w^ill give knowledge of its misuse will be welcome. This trade- 
mark is your protection. It is a guarantee. 

The requests for additional cactus which we have been receiving from 
growers in all sections of the country are the best evidence of the constantly 
increasing desire for genuine Burbank Spineless Cactus. This demand is not 
based on sentiment. It exists because planting Burbank Spineless Cactus 
means assured profits. 

Owing to the phenomenally heavy demand the past season, the available 
supply of genuine Luther Burbank Spineless Cactus has been greatly dimin- 
ished, with the result that one must secure his wants at as early a date as 
possible to avoid the possibility of disappointment. 

THE LUTHER BURBANK COMPANY. 




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A Message from Luther Burbank 

A man must confine his efforts to one occupation if he is to do it well. 

To be a successful creator of new forms of plant life and a successful 
merchant is beyond the limit of one man. 

Such is my case. 

I must either confine myself entirely to selling my new varieties of plant 
life and leave the development alone, or confine my efforts to new forms and 
improved varieties, without distributing them to the world and making them 
of practical usefulness. 

I prefer to devote my entire energies to production. 

Plant life is my one absorbing thought night and day. 

In view of these circumstances, a corporation has been formed which 
will manage, market, and carry on exclusively the business of selling the 
various new forms of plant life which I have evolved or which I may here- 
after create. This corporation is the sole distributer of the Luther Burbank 
horticultural productions, and from no other source can one be positively 
assured of obtaining genuine Luther Burbank creations. 

It is called The Luther Burbank Company. To give each purchaser a 
guarantee of receiving original Burbank productions, this corporation has 
originated a trade-mark. The name "Burbank" has been so indiscriminately 
and fraudulently used that it has been in danger of losing in a measure its 
true significance. Every package of seed and every plant sent out from this 
corporation will have this trade-mark on it for your protection. All fraud- 
ulent uses of the same will be vigorously prosecuted and any information: 
that will give knowledge of its misuse will be welcome. 



(Signed) 
November 1, 1912. 





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LUTHER BURBANK 

The Man and His Work 



Who Luther Burbank is and what he 
has done has been told in a myriad of 
books, pubHcations and periodicals of 
every sort. 

Of him Dr. L. H. Bailey, Professor of 
Botany in Cornell University, says : "It 
is an honor to California that Luther Bur- 
bank is its citizen. He is all that he has 
ever been said to be and more." 

David Starr Jordan, chancellor of 
Leland Stanford Junior University, Cali- 
fornia, says : "Luther Burbank is the 
greatest originator of new and valuable 
forms of plant life of this or any other 
age." 

Hugo De Vries of Amsterdam, Holland, 
probably the leading botanist of the 
world, says: "In all Europe there is no 
one who can even compare with Luther 
Burbank. He is a unique great genius." 

Theodore Roosevelt says : "Mr. Bur- 
bank is a man who does things that are 
of much benefit to mankind." 

Professor E. J. Wickson, for many 
years Dean of the Department of Agricul- 
ture of the University of California, says: 
"No other man has given to horticulture 
so many valuable things as has Luther 
Burbank." 

Luther Burbank was born in Massa- 
chusetts in 1849. From his early youth, 
he had always been interested in the study 
of nature, particularly of plant life, and 
prior to his coming to California in 1875, 
he developed the potato which bears his 
name. 

Establishing himself at Santa Rosa, he 
then began his systematic development of 
new types of fruits, flowers and vegeta- 
bles. His methods include breeding from 
selected individuals of a species which 
show unusual qualities, the inter-breed- 
ing of different types within a species, or 
"crossing," the inter-breeding of different 
species, or hybridization, and the develop- 
ment of "mutations" or types which orig- 
inated from new conditions and causes 



often unknown, but which remain con- 
stant. Of these methods Mr. Burbank 
says : "Hybridization, followed by selec- 
tion is the shortest plan by which valid 
new^ species can be produced." But mere- 
ly to set down the method of the man is 
little encouragement to either the layman 
or the expert; for Burbank's genius lies in 
the distinguishing ability to perceive the 
valuable points, often latent in a plant, 
which it is desirable to develop. 

Among his greatest achievements is 
the perfecting of the Burbank Spineless 
Cactus. After experiments covering six- 
teen years, this type was perfected. It is 
palatable and eagerly sought by cattle, 
hogs and poultry and in it will perhaps be 
the solution of many of the great feeding 
problems of the world. We herewith 
enumerate a few of the many other crea- 
tions that have been the basis of his well- 
merited fame : 

THE PHENOMENAL BERRY, in- 
troduced in 1893 and now a favorite on the 
Pacific Coast, a cross between the Cali- 
fornia dewberry and the Cuthbert rasp- 
berry. 

THE HIMALAYA BERRY, origin- 
ated 15 years ago at Santa Rosa, by selec- 
tions from seeds brought from the Him- 
alaya Mountains. This plant bears four 
times more fruit per plant by weight than 
any other berry. The delicious flavor of 
this berry and its wonderful keeping qual- 
ities make it the most profitable for ship- 
ping. 

THE PATAGONIA STRAWBERRY 
with its distinct flavor, which connois- 
seurs have pronounced superb. 

THE PLUMCOT, an absolutely new 
fruit, unlike any other fruit ever grown 
on earth before. It has as its base a w^ild 
American plum, Japanese plum, and an 
apricot. This work was originally com- 
menced by experimentation in the cross- 
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plum-apricot promising more satisfactory 
results, the first experiments were dis- 
continued. There are a great number of 
varieties of this new fruit — sometimes the 
flesh is yellow, sometimes pink, and some- 
times crimson. It has pits sometimes like 
the apricots and sometimes like the plum. 
The fruit is highly colored and the flavor 
is indescribable, being as unique as it is 
delicious. 

Luther Burbank has accomplished more 
in the development of new and in the 
improvement of old varieties of plums 
than all others combined. Ninety-five per 
cent of all new plums introduced the past 
twenty-five years that have become stan- 
dard are Burbank productions, although 
five times as many were introduced from 
other sources. This record speaks vol- 
umes for the genius of Luther Burbank. 

THE STONELESS PLUM : For many 
years there was growing in France a tiny 
plum with only the suggestion of a pit. 
By breeding this plum with others in or- 
der to increase its size, beauty and flavor, 
a satisfactory plum has been produced, 
through which one may cut in any direc- 
tion with a knife. The pit has disap- 
peared, although there still remains a soft 
inner core, w^hich is found in the interior 
of every pit, and which resembles in this 
plum the seed of an apple, but softer. 

THE BURBANK PLUM, introduced 
20 years ago and now more generally 
known and more widely known than any 
other plum of any name or kind. Al- 
though better plums have since been pro- 
duced by Mr. Burbank, they have not yet 
supplanted this old well-known favorite. 

THE SANTA ROSA PLUM: It re- 
ceived the gold medal at the Lewis and 
Clark Exposition. 

THE BURBANK CHERRY: The 
earliest of all large cherries; were bought 
in 1908 at auction for $15 per 10-pound 
box in the Eastern States and later at 
$7.50 per 10-pound box in carload lots. 
The next year (1909) they were sold in 
Philadelphia for $31 per 10-pound box. 
This cherry is not only the best of all 
early cherries, but will hold its own 
among cherries of any season. 

THE PINEAPPLE QUINCE: Intro- 
duced in 1899 and acknowledged to be of 



unequaled quality, having a distinct pine- 
apple flavor. 

THE OPULENT PEACH is widely 
recognized as the best in quality hereto- 
fore produced. 

WALNUTS: Mr. Burbank produced a 
walnut with a shell like paper, which 
could be readily crushed in the hand; but 
it was found that the shell was so thin 
that the nuts were totally destroyed by 
the birds, and Mr. Burbank was obliged 
to retrace his steps and increase the shell 
of his walnut before he could place it on 
the market. Mr. Burbank has also taken 
the tannin out of the walnut meat, the 
tannin being a coloring matter in the wal- 
nut which has a disagreeable flavor. 
Among the most useful of Mr. Burbank's 
experiments in walnuts are the production 
of the Royal and Paradox varieties. These 
are rapid growing walnuts and are very 
valuable commercially for timber pur- 
poses. They attain a great size, individ- 
ual specimens growing 70 to 80 feet in 
height and 2 to 3 feet in diameter in 16 
years. The wood is of good quality and 
can be used for the finest finishing pur- 
poses, and consequently commands a 
large price in the lumber market. They 
are disease resistant. An important fea- 
ture is the furnishing of superior stock 
for top grafting, by which method a grove 
of English walnuts is hurried several 
years in arriving at maturity on account 
of the very rapid growth. 

THE BURBANK POTATO: The 
Burbank potato, the first great production 
of Mr. Burbank, was produced in Massa- 
chusetts in 1873, and, though it received 
little attention at first, it is to-day grown 
each season by the millions of bushels 
and is more and more supplanting all the 
other varieties of potato. If he had never 
done anything but produce this potato, he 
would be entitled to the profound grati- 
tude of his countrymen. Although Mr. 
Burbank has achieved so much with his 
potato, he has perfected new and superior 
varieties, some of which are ready to be 
placed on the market. 

THE CRIMSON WINTER RHU- 
BARB : This rhubarb was rejected by all 
growers at first because of its new and 
unique qualities, and was wholly unap- 




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predated, but to-day in warm climates it 
is generally recognized as the rhubarb 
par excellence, and it has rightly been 
named the "mortgage lifter." Fortunes 
have been made in growing it in Califor- 
nia and Florida. 

THE GIANT RHUBARB : The last of 
all Mr, Burbank's rhubarbs just intro- 
duced, and which it is predicted w^ill excel 
the original crimson winter rhubarb 400 
per cent. It will outyield any other rhu- 
barb known at least 3 to 1. 

MUSKMELON: He has a variety of 
muskmelon which ripens late in the season 
and is somewhat larger than the ordinary 
muskmelon, and if picked when ripe will 
keep like the Hubbard squash — all winter. 
The flavor of this melon, which is named 
the "Christmas Cassaba Melon," is not 
at all unlike that of the original musk- 
melon and is delicious. 

Mr. Burbank has also improved corn, 
tomatoes, melons, and other vegetables 
almost too numerous to mention. 



FLOWERS 

THE SHASTA DAISY: This perhaps 
is the most widely known of Mr. Bur- 
bank's flower creations, and is a cross be- 
tween the wild field daisy and the Japa- 
nese and English daisy. The flowers are 
from 5 to 7 inches in diameter. There are 
distinct varieties of these daisies, fluted 
and double and single. Because of their 
great beauty, their hardihood, and their 
long flowering season, these flowers seem 
destined to take the place of the chrysan- 
themum in the public favor. 

THE GIANT AMARYLLIS: Mr. 
Burbank took the original Amaryllis, with 
its flower about 4 inches in diameter, and 
after 30 years of selection and hybridiza- 
tion has produced a flower averaging from 
8 to 10 inches in diameter, sometimes 
reaching the marvelous growth of 12 
inches. In creating a flower as large as 
this it is necessary to create a plant stocky 
enough and with a stem sufficiently strong 
to hold as large a blossom. These flowers 
range from light scarlet, pale pink, glis- 



tening crimson and deep fiery scarlet to 
snow white flaked with crimson. 

THE BURBANK ROSE received the 
gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition as 
the best bedding rose. 

THE TARRYTOWN CANNA was 
awarded the gold medal at the Panama- 
American Exposition as the best and 
freest flowering canna in existence. It is 
to-day a standard and generally acknowl- 
edged worthy of the award made. 

THE CRIMSON ESCHSCHOLTZIA: 
Mr. Burbank has taken the golden Cali- 
fornia poppy, and by selection has pro- 
duced a crimson poppy of marvelous 
beauty, blooming throughout a long sea- 
son. Perhaps no other single achieve- 
ment of Mr. Burbank's illustrates his 
marvelous powers of perception more than 
the production of this flower. Taking a 
California poppy, which has the slightest 
suggestion of crimson, Mr. Burbank, by 
patient and long-continued selection, has 
produced and fixed this beautiful crimson 
poppy. Every season myriads of these 
may be seen growing around his home. 

THE SHIRLEY POPPY: Mr. Bur- 
bank has done an immense amount of 
work with the Shirley poppy, looking par- 
ticularly to producing delicate colors and 
shades and well-shaped, cuplike flowers, 
particularly those having crinkly edges. 
Anyone in cold words cannot describe the 
gorgeousness or delicacy, as the case may 
be, of these beautiful poppies. One of 
the prettiest of all the Shirley poppies is 
one with a white center; not a glistening 
white nor a dead white, but a white sub- 
dued with an undertone of some other 
almost concealed color, with a fringing of 
pink, which fades away into the white 
center. Some of these flowers have petals 
so delicate as to be almost transparent. 
The greatest novelty among these poppies 
is one of pure blue, secured by a long se- 
ries of selections. 

Luther Burbank's achievements can 
hardly be judged by their practical use- 
fulness alone, although pretty nearly 
everything he has done has in one way 
or another a strong utility side. His re- 
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of influences of heredity and environment 
and the actual production of new species 
are of inestimable value to the science of 
biology and the establishment of the truth 
of the theory of evolution. In 1904 the 
Carnegie Institute in recognition of his 
services granted him an allowance of 
$10,000 annually for ten years to aid his 
experimental work, but this sum in no 
way met the necessities of his unusual 
experimentation. With the establishment 



of THE LUTHER BURBANK COM- 
PANY of San Francisco several years 
ago, the sole distributer of the original 
Luther Burbank horticultural produc- 
tions, the great work of Luther Burbank 
progresses every day undeterred by the 
trifling or the larger mental disturbances 
that made it impossible for Burbank to 
give all his time to the complete unfolding 
of his genius. 



The Public May Now Participate in 
Luther Burbank's Genius 



Through the offices and activities of 
The Luther Burbank Company a general 
distribution of the original productions of 
Luther Burbank is made possible and the 
entire world may now enjoy the results of 
his genius and his forty odd years of scien- 
tific and practical horticultural work. 

Of Luther Burbank's distinguished past 
accomplishments in horticulture the world 
knows much. His work to-day is of an 
even import. Removed as he is at present 
from the distracting influences that form- 
erly encroached upon his creative work, 
he now devotes his time exclusively to 
origination. The burden of finding ave- 
nues of distribution for his productions 
and the details connected with the same 
have been lifted from his shoulders. To 
enable the general public to participate in 
and enjoy Burbank's extraordinary hor- 
ticultural creations is the function of The 
Luther Burbank Company. 

The process of obtaining sufficient seed 
from an original Burbank production is 
an interesting one. Thousands and thou- 
sands of plants are grown, thousands and 
thousands of plants eliminated and dis- 
carded. On the Experiment Farms will be 
found plants that are tagged and labeled 
with what are to the public unintelligible 
signs and symbols, but to Luther Burbank 



these markings tell a story of exquisite 
care and experimentation. It is the story 
of results and when the signs read right, 
the one plant out of the many thousands 
shows that a new variety has been created. 

The few ounces of seed that result or 
the few feet of grafting wood, as the case 
may be, are then taken by The Luther 
Burbank Company and propagated in suf- 
ficient quantities for introduction through- 
out the world at the lowest possible cost. 
Thousands of dollars are expended to pro- 
duce a single creation. Up to date this 
kind of work represents an outlay of a 
quarter of a million of dollars. If only a 
few of a kind were introduced, the price 
would be prohibitive, yet the real value 
of every original Burbank production is 
represented by all that goes before in its 
history. Only because of the magnitude 
of the propagational work of The Luther 
Burbank Company is it possible to pro- 
duce these novelties in such quantities as 
to bring original Luther Burbank crea- 
tions within the reach of all. Naturally, 
years must elapse before sufficient quan- 
tities of seeds of certain varieties can be 
obtained for general distribution. During 
all that time the true reproductive and 
germinating qualities of the seeds or 
plants are determined, so that there can 




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be no question as to their quality when 
finally offered to the public. 

When he withdrew from all other en- 
deavor than creational work, making The 
Luther Burbank Company of San Fran- 
cisco the sole distributer of his produc- 
tions, he did so with the certainty that 
mankind in general would receive the ben- 
efits of all that he had accomplished. It 
was his great ambition to give the man 
and woman who owned or rented a modest 
cottage and also the practical grower the 
opportunity to grow his new orchard and 
field varieties, the utility of which the 
world has and is proving day by day. 



How to Secure Burbank Productions 

1. By ordering from the catalogs of 
The Luther Burbank Company, the sole 
distributer of original Burbank horticul- 
tural productions. The 1914 Burbank 
Seed Book, the Burbank 1914 Nursery 
catalog, and the Burbank Spineless Cac- 
tus Book tell of many wonderful new and 
valuable horticultural productions for the 
first time available to mankind. These 
may be obtained without cost by address- 
ing The Luther Burbank Company, 304 
Burbank Building, San Francisco, Cali- 
fornia, U. S. A. 



A WARNING 



During the past season many purchas- 
ers of cactus have been imposed upon by 
various unscrupulous and wholly un- 
reliable individuals and "corporations" 
through the sale of half-wild, worthless 
cactus, misrepresented as "genuine Bur- 
bank cactus." This is both an injury to 
the buyer, who is thus defrauded and an 
injustice to Luther Burbank. 

To combat this evil a trade-mark seal, 
a facsimile of which appears on the cover 
of this book, is on each package of plants 
distributed by The Luther Burbank Com- 
pany, THE SOLE AUTHORIZED DIS- 
TRIBUTER of Luther Burbank Horti- 



cultural Productions, as a guarantee that 
you are obtaining genuine Luther Bur- 
bank Productions. Look for this seal. 
It is your protection against fraud and 
misrepresentation. 

THE LUTHER BURBANK COMPA- 
NY HAS NO AGENTS OR LOCAL 
REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE 
SALE OF SPINELESS CACTUS. 

You must deal directly with this Com- 
pany if you desire to be assured of obtain- 
ing genuine Burbank Cactus. All pur- 
chases are acknowledged directly from 
the General Offices of the Company in 
San Francisco. 




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The greatest inconvenience and injus- 
tice is not misunderstanding, prejudice, 
envy, jealousy, ignorance or ingratitude, 
but that purchasers are so often deceived 
by various unscrupulous dealers who, 
taking advantage of the name "Burbank," 
hoist on the public green carnations, 
hardy bananas, half wild, thorny cactus, 
for Burbank thornless ones, blue roses, 
seedless watermelons, cigars, soap, real 
estate, magazine articles, obtaining money 
or positions under false statements of 
having been in my employ, and a thou- 
sand other similar schemes; and by out- 
rageous misrepresentations or the change 
or addition of a word or two from the cor- 
rect descriptions, deceiving purchasers. 



even when a genuine product of real 
value may happen to be offered. 

Wise planters produce their cuttings 
and plants from the original source. Tons 
of so-called "thornless" cactus cuttings 
have been sold to unsuspecting customers 
as "Burbank's" or "just as good as Bur- 
bank's" by a few dealers who well know 
that they are not in any respect what they 
claim for them. 




History of the Spineless Cactus 



By Luther Burbank 



For more than fifty years I have been 
quite familiar with "thornless cactus" of 
many species and varieties. In fact, one 
of the first pets which I had in earliest 
childhood was a thornless cactus, one of 
the beautiful Epiphyllums. 

The Phyllocactus and many of the 
Cereus family are also thornless, not a 
trace to be found on any part of the plants 
or fruit. Thus the somewhat indefinite 
popular name of "spineless cactus" has 
been used by persons unacquainted with 
these facts, for be it known that "thorn- 
less cactus" is no more of a novelty than 
a "thornless" watermelon. 

But among the Cacti, which grow to an 
immense size w^ith great rapidity and 
which can be readily cultivated in garden. 



field or desert, no thornless ones were 
known and very little interest taken in 
the cacti of any kind, either thorny or 
thornless, as to their agricultural or hor- 
ticultural value until some seventeen 
years ago, when the work of improvement 
was taken up on my experiment farms, 
and improved smooth, rapidly-growing 
varieties had been produced and made 
known. 

Some of the best growers among these 
will produce five to ten times as much 
weight of food as will the wild thorny 
ones (which some ignorant or unprinci- 
pled dealers have recommended for cul- 
tivation), under exactly the same condi- 
tions. These wonderful results were not 
unexpected as the genus Opuntia is a 




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surprisingly variable one, even in the 
wild state. 

The best botanists — even those who 
have made the Opuntias a special study — 
declare it to be one of the most difficult 
genera to classify, as new forms are con- 
stantly appearing and the older ones so 
gradually and imperceptibly merge to- 
gether. The facts, without doubt, are that 
their ancestors had leaves like other vege- 
tation and were as thornless as an apple 
tree, but in ages past were stranded in 
a region which was gradually turning to 
a desert, perhaps, by the slow evaporation 
of some great inland lake or sea. 

Being thus stranded, the plants which 
could adapt themselves to the heat and 
drought which as the years passed by be- 
came each season more and more severe, 
survived, at first by dropping the leaves, 
thus preventing too much evaporation, 
leaving the fat smooth stems only to per- 
form the functions of leaves. 

The Opuntias even to this day always 
shoot out very numerous rudimentary 
leaves, which persist a few days or weeks 
and then, having no function to perform, 
drop off. These rudimentary leaves which 
always appear for a time on the young 
slabs are often mistaken for big thorns by 
those who are not familiar with the 
growth and habits of the plant. 

But the Opuntias had yet to meet an- 
other enemy ; desert animals were hungry 
for their rich stores of nutriment and 
water, so the rudimentary leaves were 
supplemented by the awful needle-like 
thorns placed at exactly the right angles 
for the best defense. 

Some seventeen years ago, while test- 
ing the availability of a great number of 
proposed forage plants from the various 
arid regions of the world w^ith a view to 
the improvement of the most promising, I 
was greatly impressed with the apparent 
possibilities in this line among the Opun- 
tias, both as forage plants and for their 
most attractive, wholesome and delicious 
fruits, which are produced abundantly and 
without fail each season. 

These fruits, which are borne on the 
different species and varieties, vary in 



size from that of a small peanut to the 
size of a very large banana and in colors 
of crimson, scarlet, orange, yellow and 
w^hite, and also shaded in various colors 
like apples, pears, peaches and plums, and 
with more various attractive flavors than 
are found in most other fruits except, per- 
haps, the apple and the pear, the product 
of a single plant being often from 50 to 
200 pounds per annum, some bearing one 
crop, others two or more each season like 
the figs, the first or main crop ripening 
as the second comes into bloom on the 
same plants. 

The Opuntias from root to tip, are 
practically all food and drink and are 
greatly relished by all herbivorous ani- 
mals, and for this very reason have had 
to be on the defensive, and perhaps no- 
where in the whole vegetable kingdom 
have such elaborate preparations been 
made; the punishment inflicted is imme- 
diate, the pain severe and lasting, often 
ending in death, so that all living things 
have learned to avoid the Opuntias as 
they do rattlesnakes, and notwithstanding 
their most delicious and nourishing fruit, 
produced unfailingly in greatest abund- 
ance, have never before been systematic- 
ally improved by the agriculturalist and 
horticulturalist as their merits so well de- 
serve. 

By my collectors and others, for the 
earliest experiments in this work, the best 
Opuntias from all sections of Mexico, 
from Central and South America, from 
North and South Africa, Australia, Japan, 
Hawaii and the South Sea Islands, were 
secured. The United States Agricultural 
Department at Washington, through my 
friend, Mr. David G. Fairchild, also se- 
cured eight kinds of partially thornless 
ones for me from Sicily, Italy, France and 
North Africa, besides a small collection of 
M'^xican wild thorny ones which were in 
the Government greenhouses at the time. 
Besides these I had the hardy wild species 
from Maine, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, 
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Dakota, 
Texas and other States. 

All these were grown and their agricul- 
tural and horticultural values studied and 
compared with great care. 

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thornless ones were obtained, but not one 
among the thousands from all these 
sources was free from thorns and 
spicules, and even worse, those which 
were the most promising in these respects 
often bore the poorest fruit, were the most 
unproductive of fruit or produced less 
fodder, or were less hardy than the wild 
thorny species and varieties. 

The first work was to select the best of 
these, cross them, raise numerous seed- 
lings, select the best of these and so con- 
tinue hoping for improvement. 

One of the first and not unexpected 
facts of importance to be observed was 
that by crossing, the thorns were often 
increased rather than diminished, but not 
so with all. Some very few still became 
even more thornless than their so-called 
thornless parents with greatly increased 
size and quality of leaves (raquettes or 



slabs), and among them a combination of 
the best qualities of both parents with 
surprising productiveness of slabs for 
feeding. 

The work is still in progress, but on a 
still larger scale and now these improved 
Opuntias promise to be one of the most 
important food-producers of this age, 
some of these new creations grown from 
the same lot of seed yielding fully ten 
times as much feed as others under ex- 
actly the same conditions. 

Old half thornless ones have been 
grown for ages. Among the very nu- 
merous wild seedling Opuntias, partially 
thornless ones have appeared from time 
to time and these have been growing gen- 
erally unnoticed here and there in every 
part of the earth where the thorny ones 
grew, the seeds no doubt scattered by 
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bore fairly good but seedy fruits and have 
been locally cultivated for ages, but have 
never received specific horticultural names 
or descriptions, though the fruits of these 
and the thorny ones have long been used 
extensively as food and are the principal 
source of food for millions of human be- 
ings in Southern Europe, North Africa, 
Mexico and other lands, for about three 
months in each year. 

Systematic work for their improvement 
has shown how pliable and readily mould- 
ed is this unique, hardy denizen of rocky, 
drought-cursed, wind-swept, sun-blistered 
districts, and how readily it adapts itself 
to more fertile soils and how rapidly it 
improves under cultivation and improved 
conditions. 

Some one asks : "Won't they run wild 
again and produce thorns, when placed 
under desert conditions?" 

Has the "Burbank" plum, which though 
introduced twenty-two years ago, and 
is now more w^idely grown than any 
other plum on this earth, shown a ten- 
dency to be different in Africa, Borneo, 
Japan, Egypt, Madagascar or France? 
No, it is the same everywhere and the res- 
idents of Chicago, Auckland, London, San 
Francisco, New York and Valparaiso con- 
sume them in great (and rapidly increas- 
ing) numbers of carloads each season. 
The same may be said of the later intro- 
duced Wickson, America and numerous 
other plums, and of my improved fruits 
and flowers, which are extensively grown 
in all civilized countries, and are generally 
replacing the old and heretofore standard 
varieties. 

It will be so with these "new creations" 
in Opuntia. Tens of thousands of others 
not now ready to be distributed are under 
test, this catalog partially describing only 
the beginnings of a great work with the 
Opuntias, which in importance may be 
classed w^ith the discovery of a new^ con- 
tinent. 

Does this work, which has been only 
just briefly outlined, mean anything? 

Intelligent people everywhere know 
well that it means a new agricultural era 
for whole continents like Australia and 
Africa, and millions of otherwise useless 
acres in North and South America, Eu- 
rope and Asia. 

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And now during the past few years 
the United States Department of Agri- 
culture has dispatched agents to all 
parts where cacti grow to look up this 
matter among those who had for years 
been feeding the wild, thorny ones to 
their stock with good results when prop- 
erly prepared by fire, though it is ac- 
knowledged that thus prepared, a portion 
of their nutritive value is lost and though 
the dangers of loss from feeding to stock 
are lessened, are not by any means made 
safe, even by singeing or any other pro- 
cess, while many of these new thornless 
ones are as safe to handle and as safe to 
feed as beets, potatoes, carrots or pump- 
kins. 

But let it be understood that these 
thorns are not growing on the wild Opun- 
tias for ornament any more than poison 
fangs, teeth, claws and stings are pos- 
sessed by various animals. 

They are for defense, and when de- 
prived of these defenses they must be 
protected from stock like any other feed 
grown in farm, fields or gardens. 

Still some doubter who has no knowl- 
edge of desert conditions or of these new 
plants will say, "Will it pay?" Does any- 
thing pay? Some people seem to think 
that corn, wheat, oats, barley, cotton, rice, 
tobacco, melons and potatoes pay. 

How many tons of hay, beets or pota- 
toes can be raised each season on an acre 
of good soil? Yes, well, by actual weight 
in the summer of 1906 in the cool coast 
climate of Sonoma County, Cal., on a 
heavy, black "adobe" soil, generally 
thought wholly unsuited for cactus, my 
new Opuntias produced the first year, six 
months from single rooted leaves, planted 
about June 1st, an average of 47^^ pounds 
per plant or one-fourth acre, yielding at 
the distance planted (2^ x 5 feet), at the 
rate of 180,230 pounds, over ninety tons, 
of forage per acre. 

Some of the best varieties produced very 
much above this average. 

Though planted much too closely for 
permanent field culture, yet these notes 
are of interest on a subject of which little 
has been known. 

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much feed the third and succeeding years 
as they do the second season of planting. 
Yet, I would not expect one-fourth the 
above yield on desert soil without irriga- 
tion, but w^ould expect nearly or quite 
twice as much as the yield mentioned 



above in a very warm climate with one or 
two light irrigations each season. 

The leaves are to be fed to stock at any 
season throughout the whole year when 
most needed, and in countries where great 
numbers of valuable stock are lost in times 



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of unusual drought, will be of inestimable 
value and will also prove of enormous 
value in less arid countries as a common 
farm or orchard crop, even on the best 
agricultural soils. , 

The small, hard, wild thorny cactus has 
been a common every-day food for horses, 
camels, mules, oxen, growing and beef 
stock, dairy cows, pigs, and poultry for 
rr^cjre than fifty years. 

Though millions have died from the 
thorns,''' yet no systematic work for their 
improvement had been taken up until 
some seventeen years ago ; now agricul- 
turists and horticulturists in every land 
are deeply interested, and the govern- 
ments of many countries are taking meas- 
ures to secure a stock of the improved 
Burbank Opuntias to avoid if possible the 
too common occurrence of famines, for the 
Opuntias can remain uncultivated and un- 
disturbed year after year, constantly in- 
creasing in size and weight until needed; 
then each acre will preserve the lives of a 
hundred animals or even human beings for 
months until other food can be obtained. 

The wild cactus is generally prepared 
for stock by singeing the thorns with fire, 
yet this never destroys all of the thorns. 

Those who have fed the wild cactus ex- 
tensively acknowledge that cattle are 
often seen with blood dripping from their 
mouths, and that their throats and 
tongues become at last inflamed, very 
painful and hard, like a piece of sole 
leather. 

How would you enjoy being fed on 
needles, fish-hooks, toothpicks, barbed- 
wire fence, nettles and chestnut burrs? 
The wild, thorny cactus is and always 
must be more or less of a pest. 

Millions of cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, 
ostriches and other animals have been 
destroyed by it. 

The Burbank Cactus will withstand 
flood, drought, heat, wind and poor soil 
better than the wild ones and will produce 
one hundred tons of good food where the 
average wild ones will produce ten tons 
of inferior food. 

Dry seasons, which are certain to come, 

*The ■wild cactus is prepared by boiling or 
steaming in Australia in times of drought, but 
even though great loss of stock is sometimes re- 
ported when thus prepared, some are saved from 
otherwise certain starvation. 

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have been and will continue to be the 
source of irreparable loss to stock raisers. 
Many of the owners of the great stock 
ranges have seen the necessity of some 
insurance against these fearful losses and 
are devoting certain tracts to these new 
cactus plants to avert this danger as well 
as for supplementing the usual feed. 




Professor J. P. Leotsakos says in regard to 
the cactus: "The old, somewhat thorny fruit- 
ing cactus is, in my native country, one of the 
principal foods for both opulence and poverty 
during three months of the year when it is 
abundant. These pear fruits are delicious, ex- 
ceedingly nutritious and healthful. I would 
rather, by far, have half a dozen of them for 
breakfast than the best beefsteak or any other 
food. The fruit of these perfected cacti is the 
best fruit food for man or beast, and Mr. Bur- 
bank is a great benefactor in perfecting the 
cactus. If he lived in Greece a monument 
would be erected to him in every city. I have 
never seen in all the world such an astound- 
ing crop of fruit as I saw on Burbank's new 
varieties of truly spineless cactus at Santa 
Rosa, California." 



Professor J. P. Leotsakos is a graduate of 
the Royal Classical College of Athens and a 
teleiofoitos of the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Athens, and belongs to one of the 
best-known families of contemporary Greece. 
His father was the commander of the revolu- 
tionary army that brought about the deposi- 
tion of King Otho in 1852, afterwards an aide- 
de-camp to the present King George, and final- 
ly Senator from Lakonia in the Greek Parlia- 
ment at Athens. — D. N. Botassi, Consul- 
General of Greece. 



"To Luther Burbank has been granted the 
knowledge, supreme beyond other men, of the 
susceptibility of plants to vary under the in- 
fluence of new environments, delicate manipu- 
lation and intelligent direction." — Scientific 
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Feeding Wild Thorny Cactus to Sheep in Times of Drought. Often Death Was the Pen- 
alty, Due to the Thorns — But Many Sheep Were Saved. 

Results of Feeding Wild Thorny Cactus in 
Various Parts of the World 



The results of feeding wild, thorny cac- 
tus in various parts of the world are here 
given for the purpose of showing that the 
wild thorny cactus, after the mechanical 
removal of the thorns, is an excellent 
forage, though greatly inferior to the Bur- 
bank Forage Cacti. As a commercial pos- 
sibility, however, wild thorny cactus is 
unprofitable to cultivate on account of the 
slow growth and the expense attached to 
the necessary removal of the thorns. 

For hundreds, probably thousands, of 
years, the great, rapid-growing, desert 
thorny cactus has furnished food for stock 
and fruit for men, especially in Southern 
Europe, Northern Africa, Australia and 
the United States. 

The whole plant furnishes nutritious 
food in abundance, yet great pain and 
often death was the penalty for using 
it. In addition to the slabs, which fur- 
nish the forage, the fruit produced many 



tons to the acre, is very valuable as a stock 
food, owing to the high percentage of 
sugar. 

The slabs of the wild cactus are cov- 
ered with a mass of stout thorns, often 
from one to two inches in length, and as 
sharp as needles. 

Frequently, in times of drought, the 
hunger-driven livestock endeavored to 
reach the rich succulent slabs, so jealously 
guarded by the thorns, and as a result 
would often be seen with blood dripping 
from their mouths. 

Stockmen and herders, for hundreds of 
years, have availed themselves of this 
source of food supply, and it is frequently 
a common sight to see men gathering 
from the desert the slabs, which are to be 
fed to cattle, sheep and hogs. 

The custom has been to burn or singe 
the thorns or spines from the slabs before 
feeding to the st<^k. The process of singe- 
ing was necessaiify a slow and expensive 

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one, and this expense, coupled to imper- 
fect results in ridding the slabs of all the 
thorns, was the only obstacle to a greater 
use, for otherwise the forage properties 
of the wild, thorny cactus are excellent 
and most satisfactory to the stockmen. 

A sort of gasoline blow-torch has been 
used with considerable success, particular- 
ly in the southwestern portion of the 
United States and in Australia. Boiling, 
as well as singeing by other methods, has 
been resorted to and with such success 
than many thousands of cattle and sheep 
have been saved from certain starvation 
during droughts. 

However, no method has been wholly 
satisfactory, as it seems to be utterly im- 
possible to get rid of all the thorns and 
do it on an economical commercial scale. 

In North Africa, according to M. A. 
Johanne, in the Journal D'Agriculture 
Tropicale (Paris), the thorny cactus is 
considered a forage plant of great im- 
portance in the feeding of stock. The wild 
cactus has been taken under cultivation, 



and plantations have been cultivated for 
a period as long as fifty years, and the 
plants are still vigorous and productive. 
By adding a very small quantity of 
chopped straw to the slabs, excellent re- 
sults are had in feeding beef cattle, milch 
cows, goats, etc. 

From Hawaii the manager of one of 
the largest ranches writes : 



Haleakala Ranch, 



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April 17, 1905. 
Editor Butchers' and Stock Growers' 
Journal: 

I read with much interest in your issue of the 
30th ultimo the article on "Cactus-Fed Beef." 

On this ranch we have one paddock of twelve 
hundred acres covered very thickly with cactus 
or prickly pear; there is also a slight growth of 
Bermuda grass growing. In this paddock are 
pastured, all the year round, four hundred head 
of cattle and about seven hundred hogs. The 
cattle only get water when it rains; this is 
during the months of December and January; 
the other ten months they subsist entirely and 
solely on the fruit and young leaves of the 




Using the Gasoline Torch to Singe the Thorns from the Wild Thorny Cactus so the Cactus 
Could Be Fed to Live Stock — An Expensive Process, but Practiced by Many 
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Collecting Wild Thorny Cactus, to be Used as Cattle Feed 



cactus, which they help themselves to. It is 
a remarkable fact that during the dry months 
of the year we get more fat cattle per cent 
from that paddock than from any of the others. 

I consider cattle fed on cactus like these are 
to have as fine flavored beef as any I have tast- 
ed in San Francisco or New Zealand. 

The hogs, with the exception of a light daily 
ration of corn, fed to keep them tame, live ex- 
clusively on the young leaves and fruit, which 
are fed to them by herders, and thrive wonder- 
fully. L. Von Tempsky, 
Manager Haleakala Ranch Co. 

In Texas, William St. Clair, a successful 
cattleman, who has for years been using 
the wild, thorny cactus for cattle food, 
writes : 

"We find it very poor policy to put the 
slightest limit on the amount our cows get. 
The more they can eat, the better they thrive, 
and the more milk they give. There is noth- 
ing that sets them back more than a shortage 
of cactus. If we happen to be short of milk, 
the cause is almost invariably traced to the 
lack of cactus." 



H. W. Giddens of the Giddens Stock 
Farm, Texas, says: 

"Cactus produces a good, rich, grass-colored 
butter, without any odor or flavors. We feed 
in the field, and simply singe the spines." 

Actual feeding tests with a large num- 
ber of stock have been held where the 
chief food for the stock consisted of wild 
cactus. It was found that under adverse 
conditions the gain in w^eight was very 
satisfactory and the cattle thrived exceed- 
ingly well. The cattle were handled in 
the same manner as the ordinary stock, 
and were shipped into the Eastern market, 
where they brought the highest prices. 

Innumerable instances might be cited 
in addition to the foregoing which show 
the satisfactory results of feeding the 
wild, thorny cactus, aside from the dis- 
advantage occasioned by thorns. 



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Luther Burbank Among His Spineless Cactus Plants at Santa Rosa 



The Results of Luther Burbank's Work 
on the Thorny Cactus 



Mr. Burbank early perceived the tre- 
mendous possibilities of a cactus without 
thorns developed to a commercial state 
and set about the task of producing 
such a cactus. He has more than accom- 
plished the aims he had in mind when 
seventeen or eighteen years ago he first 
conceived the idea of developing the 
wild, thorny cactus into a satisfactory and 
easily handled forage. The Burbank 
Forage Cactus, considered in all its possi- 
bilities, is destined to become one of the 
world's most important stock foods. 

The economic effect of Mr. Burbank's 
achievement in taking the half-wild, 
thorny cactus and turning it into a re- 
markable commercial forage plant cannot 

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be overestimated. In summing up briefly 
what Mr. Burbank has accomplished may 
be stated : 

First. The feeding of the wild, thorny 
cactus in itself is beyond the experimental 
stage, such cactus having been extensive- 
ly utilized for hundreds of years in the 
various parts of the world as a forage, for 
all classes of livestock. But one thing 
prevented its utilization on a wider scale, 
namely, the thickly set thorns which were 
very dangerous and which inflicted injury 
to any animal that fed on cactus from 
which they had not been removed. 

Second. Mr. Burbank has removed 
this obstacle. He has produced rapid 
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hard annoying thorns which prevented its 
extended commercial use as a forage. 

Third. He has also increased the food 
value of the cactus very materially. 

Fourth. He has also developed enor- 
mously the productivity of the cactus. 

Fifth. Mr. Burbank has increased the 
yield of fruit very greatly, and has de- 
veloped the sugar content. 

These results are all achieved without 
special conditions of culture, care or at- 
tention. 

The remarkable ability of the Burbank 
Cactus to thrive with very little mois- 
ture is one which makes millions of acres 
of heretofore unprofitable land available 
for the production of very profitable 
crops of cactus forage. On these lands 
alfalfa and hay could not produce a crop. 

The value of land is fixed by its pro- 
ductivity. This means, in other words, 
that the result obtained in the supporting 
or feeding of livestock from a given acre 
of land establishes the value of that acre. 
The Burbank Forage Cactus, growing un- 
der favorable conditions, will produce 
enough forage per acre without irrigation 
to support the year around more livestock 
than any other forage generally grown, 
including alfalfa. 

As the surrounding conditions become 
more favorable, the productivity of the 
cactus is increased. In other words, cac- 
tus is a crop that is adapted to both cheap 
land and high-priced land. The better 



the soil and general conditions, the greater 
the yield 

It has many advantages over other 
crops, the chief one being that it is a green 
succulent forage for livestock THE 
YEAR ROUND. In other words, it is a 
natural silage, as it can be gathered in the 
green state at any season of the year. It 
does not have to be harvested at anv par- 
ticular season, and if immediate use is not 
contemplated, the cactus will continue to 
grow if left in the field. There is no need 
of harvesting and storing as would be the 
case with any other forage crop. 

Spineless Cactus is something which is 
new, and on account of this there are very 
few who have had extended experience in 
handling or caring for the cactus, there- 
fore it is inadvisable to accept the advice 
of those pretending to be informed, but 
whose knowledge is limited. Those who 
plant cactus are urged to read carefully 
the instructions covering the culture and 
the handling of the cactus as set forth in 
this book, which have been prepared un- 
der the general direction of Mr. Burbank, 
who is the creator and only recognized 
authority on the Burbank Forage Cac- 
tus. Cactus is not like any other plant, 
therefore it cannot be handled like the 
average plant or as the judgment might 
dictate. The care and culture of cactus, 
w^hile very different from the ordinary 
plants, yet is so simple that one follow- 
ing directions should have little difficulty 
in obtaining satisfactory results. 



"That the millions of acres of desert land 
overgrown with cactus may be made a source 
of large revenue, seems almost incredible, but 
stranger things have happened. Unless Bur- 
bank be badly mistaken, the spineless cactus is 
destined to become one of the most useful of 
plants, furnishing abundance of food for man 
and beast in regions which have been regarded 
as too sterile and desolate for any form of 
stock raising or farming. And the profitable 
conversion of the common form of the plant 
into alcohol seems even better assured." — "The 
Sacramento (Cal.) Bee." 



"The production of these new spineless fruit- 
ing cacti is, in my opinion, as important to the 
world as the discovery of a new continent." — 
Judge S. F. L., San Jose, Cal. 



RESTORING THE LAND 
There is every prospect that before the life's 
work of Luther Burbank has ended he will have 
seen thousands of square miles of desert lands 
of the world trained to a profitable condition of 
fertility through the medium of his spineless 
cactus. The British Government is considering 
the feasibility of introducing Mr. Burbank's 
hybrid plant in the Sahara Desert, with a view 
of eventually forcing the most unprolific dis- 
trict in the world to support life. — "Register- 
Leader," Des Moines, Iowa. 



THAT SPINELESS CACTUS IS A SUC- 
CESS HAS BEEN PROVEN AT YUMA. 
"The growing of spineless cactus is no long- 
er a desert dream, or the figment of the imag- 
ination. This desert wonder is being grown in 
the desert lands adjacent to Yuma and some 
surprisingly good results are being obtained." 
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Where Cactus Can be Successfully Grown 




Map of Globe, Where Cactus Can Be Grown 



Cactus can be grown close in along the 
coast of California, south to San Diego, 
in the great valleys of California, in a 
considerable part of Southern Arizona, 
Southern New Mexico, Southern Texas, 
Southern Louisiana and Florida. In a 
general way, this is the part of the United 
States best adapted for cactus culture. 

Maps of the Globe with cross lines in- 
dicating the northern and southern limits 
for the successful cultivation of the new 
Burbank Cactus plants for fruit and for- 



age; it will be observed that the whole 
continents of Africa and Australia, most 
of South America and the southern part 
of North America, Southern Europe and 
Asia and most of the thousands of islands 
of the seas are included in the territory 
where they can be grown ; even this great 
territory, including more than three- 
fourths of the inhabitable land of the 
earth is being somewhat extended by the 
production of hardier varieties. This work 
is progressing slowly but very surely. 



"Burbank's thornless cactus is certainly prov- 
ing itself to be the modern vegetable marvel. 
Nothing like it has ever been produced before. 
Its vitality surpasses the limit of belief, for 
nothing in the vegetable world has ever shown 
such wonderful resistant capacity, such repro- 
ductive powers, such exuberance of growth." — 
"Standard," Eureka, Cal. 

"On one of our experimental farms, in this 
State, we have some of Mr. Burbank's thorn- 
less cactus growing side by side with the best 
varieties of the government's thornless cactus, 
distributed last spring. 

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"The rate of increase on the part of the 
poorest of the Burbank cactus as compared 
to the best of the government cactus is about 
fifteen to one." — "Enterprise," Silver City, 
New Mexico. 



"While I have long been impressed with 
your work, I am now overwhelmed with the 
vast amount of good which you have been able 
to accomplish. I respect your work above all 
that has ever been done for horticulture." — 
Professor. Wm. B. Alwood, Virginia College; 
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The Spineless Cactus for Forage 

For all Livestock Including Poultry 



The leaves or slabs of the spineless 
cactrp -^'-e '"S'^d fc ^o"ic' ■^•" ^ ' "^ "-^ 
stock including poultry. The whole plant, 
both the leaves and the fruit, almost 
without exception, finds immediate favor 
with all herbiverous animals. 

They actually prefer it to almost any 
other food. More than that, it makes a 
superior quality of beef and exceedingly 
rich milk. This is not surprising as the 
cactus is one of the richest foods known 
in sodium, potash and magnesium, which 
are the principal salts found in milk. 

These valuable organic salts are found 
in the cactus more abundantly than in 
any other food. 



The fact is often observed that ani- 
mals, when fed on cactus, improve in con- 
dition more than can be accounted for by 
the usual chemical analysis for food 
values. It has been a matter of much 
study by chemists until it was discovered 
by actual experiment that the organic 
mineral salts, known as sodium, potash, 
and magnesia aided in the digestion of 
food, which was not otherwise assimi- 
lated and utilized by the animal. 

"The Burbank Spineless Cactus will 
prove especially valuable in feeding dairy 
cattle, as it will furnish a succulent feed 
throughout the entire year, so that an even 
flow of milk can be obtained." 




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A Single One- Year-Old Plant, Showing the Remarkable Productivity of the Burbank Cactus — 
Forty-four New Slabs Produced from One Original Cutting as the 
Result of One Year's Growth. 



"When fed with a httle cotton-seed 
meal or other concentrated food or used 
with about fifteen pounds of good alfalfa 
hay, it will prove the ideal feed by which 
dairymen may obtain the same quantity 
and quality of milk in January as in June. 

"Even now, the best butter is being 
made from dairy herds fed on singed wild 
cactus with only three or four pounds of 
cotton-seed meal per day or its equiva- 
lent; while some of the best beef cattle 
have been fattened on the same rations, 
and sheep, hogs and calves are being pre- 

"In all Europe there is no one who can even 
compare with Luther Burbank. The time will 
come when he will be as well known and as 
highly cherished in California as he now is 
among the scientific men of Europe. He is a 
unique, great genius." — Hugo De Vries, of 
Amsterdam, Holland, the leading botanist of 
Europe. 

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pared for the market on an exclusive cac- 
tus diet." 

"Some of the best herds in Southern 
Texas have thrived on a continuous 
roughage ration of prickly pears (cactus) 
and have kept in the best of condition, 
with a rather heavy concentrated ration 
of cottonseed meal and rice bran." "In 
one instance a herd of 80 to 100 cows had 
no other roughage for nearly two years. 
No inconvenience was apparent and the 
milk flow was good." 



"The man who always does most says the 
least. Your good works will bless humanity 
long after you have said 'Good night.' Your 
work is always a source of inspiration to me, 
and I am continuously wondering, 'What will 
he accomplish next?' " — Col. G. B. Brackett, 
Pomological Chief U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture, Washington, D. C. 



^ttr^^Q Luther Burbank Companj^ ^E^^ 

' "TL_ S a n F r an c i s c o, C a 1 . U. S. A. 




Showing the Remarkably Heavy Yield of Burbank Cactus — Field Scene at Santa Rosa 



The Annual Yield 



In the summer of 1906 in the coast cli- 
mate of Sonoma County, California, on 
the black heavy adobe, a soil thought 
wholly unsuitable for cactus, there was 
produced the first year six months from 
single rooted leaves an average of 
forty-seven and one-half pounds per plant, 
yielding at the distance planted, at the 
rate of 180,230 pounds or over ninety tons 
of forage per acre. 

The Burbank Cactus will produce 



nearly double as much feed the third and 
succeeding years as they do the second 
season of planting. 

Of course, it would not be expected 
that there would be more than one-fourth 
of the above yield on desert soil without 
irrigation. Still there could be expected 
almost twice as much, as mentioned 
above, where the climate is warm and 
where there are one or two light irriga- 
tions each season. 



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^\Q Luther Burbank CompaR>> '^^^ 

San Francisco. Cal. U.S.A. 




FEEDING HOGS BURBANK FORAGE CACTUS 
These Hogs Gained Three-quarters of a Pound Each per Day — The Result of the Feeding 

Is Shown by the Following Affidavit 



RESULT OF FEEDING CACTUS TO EIGHT HOGS, AT SANTA 

ROSA, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE SANTA 

ROSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

May 30, 1913, to June 22, 1913 

AFFIDAVIT 

This test was conducted near Santa Rosa, California under the 
general supervision of representatives of the Santa Rosa Chamber 
of Commerce. 

There were eight pigs in all, divided into two pens. These pigs 
were of no special breed, being common stock taken from hill pas- 
ture, where their main foods were green grasses, roots and what- 
ever is usually found by pastured hogs, the hogs being more or 
less wild. The test would have shown better results had thor- 
oughbred hogs been chosen. 

Pigs ranged from 35 to 80 pounds in weight. In one pen cactus 
was fed exclusively, and in the other cactus with a very small 



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^G Luther Burban.k Compan>) 

San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A.. 

amount of rolled barley and bran. The cactus used was taken trom 
Mr. Burbank's experimental farm, being old stock which had been 
discarded. From the first, the pigs ate cactus readily. In the be- 
ginning it was thought necessary to supply all the water the pigs 
would drink, but it became apparent that very little water was 
necessary, and was almost entirely discontinued, with more bene- 
ficial results. From 20 to 30 pounds of cactus were fed each day to 
each pen. The pigs ate up all that was offered them, care being 
taken not to feed too much. Enough cactus was cut from the field 
to last several days, and was cut up in small portions by running 
it through a sheer just before feeding time. 

NET INCREASE IN WEIGHTS OF HOGS 
Pen No. 1 

May 30, 1913 June 22, 1913 Net Gain 
4 hogs 195! 2 pounds 257 pounds 61 ^2 pounds 

Pen No. 2 

4 hogs 274|^ pounds 331 pounds 561 2 pounds 

Total 470 pounds 588 pounds 118 pounds 

Twenty-two days' net gain for eight hogs weis 118 pounds. 

The net gain per hog for 22 days was 14 2-3 pounds, an aver- 
age of two-thirds pound per day. 

Condition of pigs good, and in every way showed proof that 
cactus makes an excellent and satisfactory green fodder, the cactus 
supplying a good succulent ration for growing hogs. 

During tests of pigs, a thoroughbred Berkshire sow, with four 
suckling pigs, was put upon a diet of cactus and rolled barley. 
Through lack of a proper supply of milk this sow had lost several 
of her litter, and the remaining four were in poor condition. The 
sow responded quickly to the cactus feed, giving a decided increase 
in flow of milk, the result of which was shown in the rapid growth 
and good condition of the suckling pigs. The small pigs soon learned 
to like cactus and ate it greedily. 

The foregoing statements and facts are true to the best of my 
knowledge and belief. 

JOHN RINNER, President, 

Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. 
EDWARD H. BROWN, Secretary, 

Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. 
Subscribed in my presence, this 22nd day of June, 1913. 

(Seal) CHARLES M. KELLOGG, 

Notary Public, in and for Sonoma County, CgJifomia. 





^Q Luther Burbank Compan5> >-^ 

San Francisco. CaL U.S.A. Jh c^AiJ^ 

A Demonstration of the Superiority of Burbank 
Cactus as a Feed for Cows and Hogs 

Result of Feeding Burbank Spineless Cactus at the Certified 
Dairy, Owned by H. R. Timm, at Dixon, California 



Affibanit 



As Feed for Dairy Cows 









Milk 


Cactus 








Lbs. 


Lbs. 


September 


2, 


1912 


37 


10 


September 


3, 


1912 


36 


22 


September 


4, 


1912 


341/4 


38 


September 


5, 


1912 


37y2 


67 


September 


6, 


1912 


42 


75 


September 


7, 


1912 


44 


75 


September 


8, 


1912 


45 


72 


September 


9, 


1912 


47 


76 


September 


10, 


1912 


46 


74 


September 


11, 


1912 


45^ 


76 



The above is the result of a test in the 
feeding of Burbank Spineless Cactus to a 
dairy cow, made at the H. R. Timm Dairy, 
Dixon, Cal. The test was made during a 
period of ten days to find out the real 
value of cactus as a milk-producing food. 

As the dairy herd was being fed on the 
best kind of green alfalfa and alfalfa hay, 
it would hardly be expected that a cow 
would increase in milk when cactus w^as 
substituted for the green feed. On Sep- 
tember 2, the cow was taken from the herd 
and placed on a ration of cactus and bar- 
ley, and a light feed of alfalfa hay. With- 
in four or five days she ate it without any 
grain and soon reached a gain of ten 
pounds of milk daily. 

As Feed for Hogs 

On September 13, 1912, two three 
months' old pigs, weighing together 190 
pounds, were given a feed of Burbank 
Spineless Cactus. 

The slabs in the beginning were fed to 

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the pigs whole and were torn to pieces 
and greedily eaten by them. 

On the evening of September 21 the 
pigs weighed together 210 pounds, show- 
ing a net gain of ten pounds each over a 
period of eight days. During this period 
they received in addition to the cactus 
possibly five pounds of alfalfa, but noth- 
ing else. 

The physical condition of the pigs at 
the end of the test was excellent, being 
the same as Vv^hen pastured on alfalfa. 

I consider it a splendid substitute for 
green alfalfa when fed with a small 
amount of alfalfa hay. And I consider it 
doubly valuable as a cow food on account 
of the fact that it can be harvested and 
fed during the winter months when there 
is no other green feed. H. R. TIMM. 

State of California, 

County of Solano — ss. 

H. R. Timm, being first duly sworn, de- 
poses and says : I have read the attached 
statement of facts and know the contents 
thereof, and desire to state that the same 
are true to my own knowledge, informa- 
tion and belief. 

H. R. TIMM. 

Subscribed to and sworn to before me 
this 3rd day of December, 1912. 

WINFIELD R. MADDEN, 

Notary Public in and for Solano 
County, California. 

NOTE: Mr. Timm is the president of 
the First National Bank of Dixon and the 
owner of one of the largest and best 
known certified dairies in the West. 




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San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A. 




Blooded Dairy Cows Feeding on Burbank Forage Cactus. Cows from this Herd on a Bur- 
bank Cactus Ration Increased Their Milk Flow Ten Pounds per Day Over 
a Green Alfalfa Ration. 
(See Affidavit Opposite.) 



Some Comments by Our Customers 



San Diego. 
The Luther Burbank Company. 

I secured some of your famous spineless cac- 
tus and planted them about August 1, 1912, and 
will say they have done well. I also secured 
later one of the fruiting kind and planted same 
about September 1, 1912. Up to the present 
time has thrown out a phenomenal growth be- 
tween 30 and 40 leaves. Some of the latter are 
now traveling fast between the one and two- 
foot mark in length, and if it keeps on I expect 
to see it grow clear over the top of my 
bungalow. T. M. 

Angleton, Texas. 

Last year we secured a small shipment of 
your spineless cactus, most of the cuttings, 
altho set out quite late in the season and having 
had an extra amount of wet weather to con- 
tend with, have done well. A number of the 
plants have from twelve to sixteen new leaves 
or slabs. C. E. T. 

Sonora, Mexico. 
The Luther Burbank Company. 

We have your spineless cactus here. They 
are in the third vear. Some of them seven feet 
high and are doing fine. T. L. 



El Ranch Del Oro. 
The Luther Burbank Company. 

We have one (cactus) plant here and it cer- 
tainly has grown tremendously this summer. 
It is fully equal to the picture you sent. The 
big fat leaves, taken off occasionally, have given 
us lots of smaller plants. 

I have some land near C , where I figure 

to plant in another year. K. B. N. 

The Luther Burbank Company. 

. . . Thank you for your courtesy in the mat- 
ter. It is a pleasure to deal with a company 
which lives up to its promises. 

Very sincerely yours, 

H. L. S. 

The slabs I bought from you in May, 1912, 
and sent to Porto Rico are doing wonderfully 
well since they, after a year there, were trans- 
ferred to the Government grounds in Mayaguez. 
(Signed) J. D. Sulsona, 
40 East 42d Street, 

New York. 




Tlie Luther Burbank Compart^ 

San Francisco, Cal. U.S.A.. 




Of Easy Culture and Rapid Growth 

Burbank's Spineless Cactus Always Grown 
from Cuttings, Never by Seeds 



Everybody knows that Baldwin apples, 
Bartlett pears and our favorite peaches, 
plums and cherries can not be raised from 
seed; just the same law^s hold true with 
the improved Opuntias, but fortunately 
they can be raised from cuttings in any 
quantity w^ith the utmost ease — more 
truly they raise themselves, for when 
broken from the parent plant, the cuttings 
often attend to rooting without further 
attention, whether planted right end up, 
bottom up, sideways or not at all. 

Best results are secured by planting the 
lower half of the cuttings below the sur- 
face of well-prepared, dry, warm soil. 

No form of plant life perhaps responds 
more readily to kindly treatment than the 
Opuntia. This is demonstrated in the 
faster, heavier and generally better 
growth possible through a moderate 
amount of cultivation, the keeping down 
of grass and weeds, especially during the 
earlier periods of growth. Larger yields 



of finer fruit and more and tenderer pads 
are the result of proper treatment. 

People who are not acquainted with the 
cactus often mistake the numerous point- 
ed leaflets on the undeveloped slabs for 
spines. These, having no function to per- 
form, soon drop off. They are as dif- 
ferent from spines as blossoms are from 
leaves. 

Spineless Cactus, especially fruiting, 
may, under certain conditions, bear 
spicules, which are simply small, fragile 
and easily detached spines, in varying 
number but not enough to interfere with 
their being fed to cattle without previous 
preparation. Plants may under cultiva- 
tion produce a few spines of no particular 
consequence. 

The leaves of these new cactus should 
be shrunken slightly or wilted at least 
before planting (except in absolutely dry 
deserts or in very warm summer weath- 
er). Meantime, an earlier and more rapid 
growth will be secured by plowing and 
harrowing the land as for any other crop. 



Comparative Value of Cactus Forage 



There is not any particular price for 
cactus forage, simply because there is not 
any for sale. And yet the question is 
often asked, What is it worth? The best 
answer that we can give is that Burbank 
Forage Cactus will produce enough feed 



per acre, without irrigation, to support 
more livestock than any forage generally 
grown, with or without irrigation. As 
cattle always follow feed, there should be 
an ever-present market for cactus forage 
w^herever it is grown. 



Is man also to redeem the desert for civiliza- 
tion? The French will test Burbank's spineless 
cactus on Sahara and the desert islands of 
Mayotte, off Madagascar, and the English and 
Germans will try its virtues in their South 
African possessions. Burbank's creation is de- 
clared to be palatable not only to cattle, but to 



man, and it thrives on areas that are hopelessly 
arid, provided there be plenty of heat and 
light. 

It would be an almost crowning achievement 
if, by his genius, man, after these thousands of 
years, were able to announce the doom of the 
desert. — "Journal," Portland, Ore. 



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TliG Luther Burbank Company) 

San Fran Cisco, Cal. U.S.A. 



The Burbank Forage Cactus Supplies all the 
Water the Animals Need 



There is the further consideration that 
the cactus suppHes the animal with al- 
most all the water it needs. 

In Hawaii and Mexico, cattle have been 
known to subsist for six months on a 
cactus diet without a drop of water. 

The following letter from Robt. Hind 
tells of his 20 years' experience in feed- 
ing cactus without water: 

Puuwaawaa Ranch, 
Hawaii, May 17, 1913. 
The Luther Burbank Company, 
San Francisco, Calif. 

Gentlemen; I am very happy to conform to 
your request for a statement from me regard- 
ing my experience with the feeding of the wild 
thorny cactus upon my ranches in the Island of 
Hawaii, during the past twenty years. 

First of all, I wish to emphasize that all my 
cactus-feeding experience has been with the 
wild thorny cactus, the old-fashioned spiny va- 
riety, and not with the Spineless Cactus, This 
variety thrives on my ranches on the poorest 
soils. I am told that it is a native Hawaiian 
plant, or was introduced there very many years 
ago. The only difference between this cactus 
and the Burbank Spineless Cactus is the ab- 
sence of the spines on the latter. 

Cattle on my ranch have been fed on the 
thorny cactus for as long a period as fifteen 
years, and have thrived on such feeding. I have 
had to depend upon my cactus patches almost 
entirely for stock feed during the dry seasons, 
and I have found it to be unexcelled for this 
purpose. The very best results are obtained 
when cactus is mixed with a small quantity of 
dry feed, such as dry grasses, old hay, etc., but 
this is not absolutely necessary. While using 
my cactus chiefly as a reserve for the major 
portion of my herd, I find even when I have 
a fair amount of other feed I could add spiny 
cactus to it, and the cattle did better than if 
they had other feed without the cactus. I do 
not raise any other form of green food. 

Perhaps the most peculiar and significant fact 
concerning cactus as stock food is that it sup- 
plies all the water the animals need. Horses 
and live stock on my ranch, fed with spiny 
cactus, thrive wonderfully without anv water 
whatever. I have good fat cattle that have 
never seen water and do not know how to drink 
it when offered to them. I have other cattle 
which I have imported from the United States, 
and which have not tasted a drop of water since 
being fed on the cactus. They have lived for 
years without water, and are at fat as any 
grass-fed cattle in the United States. They 
make just as good beef as you can get in any 
restaurant. As a matter of fact, some of my 
ranges are absolutely devoid of springs and 



water, yet the cattle go year after year thor- 
oughly content with the cactus food, from which 
they receive sufficient water to supply all their 
physical needs. 

My hogs always thrive better on a cactus 
feed than when they are fed on dry feed with 
water. The general physical condition of the 
stock is most excellent. Some of my cattle feed 
on the cactus the year round, the number being 
governed by the available supply. But not only 
is the cactus a much sought after food by the 
hogs and cattle. I have about 1000 turkeys 
which subsist chiefly on cactus slabs and the 
fruit which the cactus bears in considerable 
quantities. These turkeys do not get a drop 
of water. 

I have lost quite a few head of cattle, due 
to the spines, but the number is not very great 
in comparison to the number of cattle that feed 
upon it. 

I find that cactus is a splendid milk producer. 
There is something in the cactus that seems to 
help the flow of milk. What it is I do not 
know, but I do know that it has a positive 
beneficial effect, other than the mere food value. 

My own experience with the spiny cactus led 
me to investigate the Burbank Spineless Cactus, 
and it is my opinion that the Burbank Spineless 
Cactus is very much superior. I planted some 
three years ago a number of plants of the 
Spineless Cactus obtained from Mr. Burbank, 
and they have thrived remarkably well, but I 
have preferred to conserve these plants for 
future use, and to extend my acreage. As you 
know, I have just purchased a very large quan- 
tity of the Burbank Spineless Cactus, and I look 
to this to furnish me with the means of prac- 
tically doubling the amount of livestock on my 
ranges and to furnish them with a forage which 
is unexcelled. Another advantage in the cactus 
forage is that you do not have to harvest at 
any particular season, and if you so desire the 
growth may accumulate year after year until 
actually needed. 

I should much prefer to feed cactus every 
day in the year, allowing the cattle to have all 
they care to eat, but, as I said before, my great 
concern is that my supply is limited. I con- 
sider cactus one of the very best forages for 
semi-arid or dry countries. 

Yours very truly, 

(Signed) ROBT. HIND. 

Note. — Mr. Robert Hind is one of the largest 
and most successful ranchers in the Hawaiian 
Islands, controlling over 50.000 acres of land. 
He has been engaged in raising livestock for 
over twentv years and has several thousand 
head of cattle, several thousand sheep and hogs 
and a large number of horses. He is progres- 
sive and believes in blooded stock and has from 
time to time imported the finest types of Here- 
fords and Polled Angus cattle. 

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San Francisco, Cal. U. S. A. 





Burbank Cactus Leaf and Fruit 



The New Burbank Cactus for Fruit 



The old thorny varieties of the fruiting 
cactus are too well known to need de- 
scription. The fruits are the principal 
food for millions of people during three 
or four months each year. The fruits of 
the Burbank Fruiting Cactus are greatly 
superior to the old kinds, and can be 
raised for one-tenth the cost of producing 
other fruits. 

The fresh fruit of these improved varie- 
ties is unique in form and color, exceed- 
ingly handsome, unusually wholesome 
(the large amount of vegetable salts they 
contain being regarded as very beneficial), 
and far superior to the banana in flavor. 
There is never a failure in the crop, which 
can be shipped as safely as the other de- 
ciduous fruits. The fruit can be gathered 
and stored like apples, and some kinds 
will keep in excellent condition from four 
to five months. Samples packed in or- 
dinary packing boxes without ice, were 
shipped to Chicago, New York, Boston, 
and Washington and kept in perfect con- 
dition. 

Most delicious jams, jellies, syrups, etc., 
in enormous quantities, at a nomincal cost, 



are made from the fruits alone or in com- 
bination with other fruits, besides various 
foods and confections, such as Tuna 
honey (Miel de Tuna), Tuna butter 
(Melcocha), and Tuna cheese (Queso). 

Opuntias have been used (even the 
thorny ones), for making confectionery 
by the Mexicans and others for a long 
time. Some of the finest candies of Mex- 
ico are candied cacti of various forms. 

The juice from the fruits of the crimson 
varieties is used for coloring ices, jelly 
and confectionery ; no more beautiful 
colors can be imagined. 

For the old fruiting, Opuntias or Prickly 
Pears, eighteen thousand pounds of fruit 
per acre is found to be a common crop, 
while on good soils the Burbank fruiting 
varieties have produced at the rate of 
more than twice as much. The fruits dif- 
fer in various ways, like apples, plums or 
peaches. By analysis, they are found to 
contain from six to fourteen per cent 
sugar, besides a small amount of protein 
and fat, also aromas and flavors. Some 
contain more of these, some less; all de- 



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Sari Francisco, CaI. U.S.A.. 




Burbank Cactus in Fruit — Showing the Enormous Yield of Fruit rich in Sugar 



sirable qualities are greatly increased by 
scientific breeding and selection for this 
purpose, as with the apple, peach, sugar 
beet, and other fruits, srrains, and 
vegetables. 

Some of the earlier varieties ripen in 
June and July, the later ones in August, 
September, October and November and 
through the winter. Most of them com- 
mence bearing about the third year from 
cuttings. 



"Mr. Burbank's greatness, and the magni- 
tude of the value of his achievements are 
recognized the world over by men best cap- 
able of understanding and appreciating both 
the man and his work." — Congressman E. A. 
Hayes. 



The general practice to prepare the fruit 
for use is by brushing with a whisk broom 
or rubbing with a coarse cloth, then cut- 
ting a thin slice from each end through 
the skin, then slitting from end to end 
when the skin may be readily removed, 
leaving the solid, sweet flesh ready for 
use; another way is to slice through the 
center of the fruit from end to end and 
remove the flesh with a spoon. 



It is said by David Starr Jordan, Chancellor 
of Leland Stanford Junior University, Cali- 
fornia, that: 

"Luther Burbank is the greatest originator 
of new and valuable forms of plant life of this 
or any other age." 



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TTiG Luther Burbank Compan5) 

San Francisco. Cal. U.S.A. 




The Kind of Climate and Land Needed 
for Cactus Culture 



Climate 

Cactus will not thrive where the 
ground freezes over an inch in depth or 
where the temperature stands as low as 
fifteen degrees above zero for any great 
period. Heat is not of serious conse- 
quence. 

About six to eight inches of rainfall 
are required for the best cactus culture, 
although cactus will do well on three to 
five inches per season. 

It is not necessary that the rainfall 



should be regular. The precipitation of 
rain can be once in four years or even as 
infrequent as once in ten years. 

The Kind of Land 

Cactus plants do not necessarily re- 
quire rich land. The climatic conditions 
are more important than the soil. 

The land need not be w^hat is generally 
denominated fruit or agricultural land. 

Cactus will stand as much white alkali 
as any plant which grows. 



¥ 



X 




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Newly Planted Cuttings Showing the New Growth — Fifteen New Slabs on One Plant 



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San Francisco. Cal. U.S.A. 

How to Grow the Burbank Cactus 

FULL CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 




What to Plant — Cuttings or Seeds 

Cactus should always be raised from 
cuttings, never under any circumstances 
from seed. 

Where to Plant 

These new^ Burbank cacti can be plant- 
ed in any part of the earth where the ther- 
mometer does not go lower than 15 de- 
grees above zero and where the rainfall 
is not over 40 or 60 inches, or less than 
3 to 4 inches. In localities where the rain- 
fall is continuous and heavy the cactus 
sometimes suffers from decay of the 
leaves. It is not in any way particular 
as to soil, growing in any soil in which 
any other plant will grow if it is not 
too wet. Good agricultural land, like 
corn land or vineyard land, is especially 
good, and will, of course, produce a larger 
crop than poorer land. Temperature and 
moisture are the two important matters to 
look after; soil is of little consequence 
compared with these. 

When to Plant 

Cactus should never be planted, trans- 
planted or moved during rainy winter 



weather, which is just the time to plant 
nearly all other trees and plants. If 
planted at this season they very promptly 
decay, especially if it happens to be cold 
at the same time that it is damp. The 
two together are death to the cactus when 
moved at such seasons and under such 
conditions. The best months for planting 
are the warm dry months extending in 
Central California from April to Novem- 
ber. The actual seasonal conditions gov- 
ern always. Planting after November is 
satisfactory when there is little rainfall, 
and much sunshine and the land is dry. 

How to Plant 

The cuttings consist of slabs, sometimes 
called leaves. These weight from tw^o to 
five pounds, according to variety. It is 
always best to plant a whole slab. While 
those that are divided will sometimes 
grow fairly well, it is not economy to 
divide them. Better results are always 
obtained by planting whole slabs. As be- 
fore stated, this must be done during the 
warm months. Every slab, if properly 
planted, will root in from four to six 
weeks, promptly, surely and without 



CACTUS ERA INEVITABLE 



"The cactus era is just opening. Ten or 
twenty years hence many well-informed men 
believe the cactus will have supplanted and dis- 
placed alfalfa throughout a great area of the 
civilized world. Why? Because the cactus will 
grow with little or no irrigation, upon any kind 
of soil, with infinitely less attention than alfalfa 
must have, and will produce far greater results 
in yield of fodder. 

"The romance and marvel of the Burbank 
Cactus would fill a large book. The story of 
the sixteen years of patient effort employed by 
that wonder-worker, Luther Burbank, justly 
calls for a place in literature. 

"Imagine, if you please, a man collecting the 
cacti of the world, selecting from all of these 
varieties the best, then growing millions of 
seedlings, crossing and recrossing them, select- 
ing and reselecting, and, finally, after sixteen 



years triumphantly evolving from this patient, 
laborious process and from millions of discard- 
ed cacti, seven plants which were not only free 
from spines, but which possessed the growing 
and feeding values for which he had so long 
striven. This, in a nutshell, is what Luther 
Burbank did with the cactus. Sometimes out 
of 100,000 seedlings he destroyed 99,999. The 
remaining individual he watched and tended 
as carefully as a mother her nursing babe. Pa- 
tience, infinite patience, had to be added to 
the Burbank genius, the truly Spineless Cactus. 

"Of those anxious ones who have endeavored 
to detract from the merit of this, the greatest 
of the Burbank triumphs, we will say nothing. 
The Burbank Thornless Cactus speaks for it- 
self. It will, by its wonder-working accom- 
plishments, best answer all critics, whether ma- 
licious or ignorant." — Ex. 



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This Shows the Remarkable Productivity of the Burbank Spineless Cactus — Beginning the 

Second Season 



fail, if properly treated. Unlike all 
other plants, it is best that the cuttings 
should be wilted a little, though in hot 
weather they will grow without wilting. 
They can be wilted in any ordinary warm 
climate if placed flat on the ground here 
the sun does not strike them from 11 to 
2, or any little shade which protects them 
from the burning, fiery heat of the mid- 
day sun. When the parts that have been 
cut in removing from the old plant have 
become dry and seared over, they may be 
planted at once, one-third under the 
ground and two-thirds above, either 
straight up or slanting at any angle. This 
is absolutely all that is necessary in plant- 
ing cactus. If the cuttings happen to 
be a little bruised in shipping, the bruis- 
ed places should be cut away and during 
the summer time will heal over at once. 
In the winter time such bruised places 
will promptly decay. 

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Preparing the Ground 

Very ordinary kind of soil will do for the 
cactus, though as with all other plants, the 
better it is the better they will grow. The 
ground should be plowed and harrowed 
and allowed to become quite dry on the 
surface before the cuttings are planted. 
In planting the cutting, it is well to dig 
out all moist earth with a trowel or spade, 
and to have dry dirt around the lower part 
of the cuttings, as they root much quicker 
in dry dirt than in moist, strange as it may 
appear. Many failures of cactus cuttings 
have been caused by planting in too damp 
soil, or irrigating too soon after they are 
planted. In planting for forage, it is well 
to make double rows three feet apart, and 
these double rows should be about ten 
or twelve feet apart and in these double 
rows the cactus should be planted alter- 
nately, as in this way they help to hold 




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SHOWING METHOD OF PLANTING CACTUS 
Double Rows — Twelve Feet Apart, With Cuttings Spaced in Three-Foot Squares in the 
Double Rows — By this Method a Wagon Will Reach Four Single Rows 
in Gathering the Cactus for Feed 



each other up better and have more room 
to grow, especially while young. Cactus 
may be planted on hillsides in very hot 
climates on the north sides. They thrive 
best on the south sides in cold climates. 
The cactus is especially valuable as an 
adjunct to alfalfa, as it will grow on ordi- 
nary land with a very small amount of 
water, where alfalfa would be sure to die 
out. Under such conditions, the cactus 
will thrive v/here alfalfa cannot be grown. 
Nothing can be superior to the cactus for 
this purpose, as it improves year by year. 
Cactus should never be planted in the 
shade or wet land. In some cases, where 
there is an extreme cold spell of weather 
the tips of the leaves will sometimes 
freeze. When thus frozen all the de- 
cayed parts should be cut away as soon 
as possible, and as soon as a sunny day 
comes the plants will heal over and no fur- 
ther damage will be done, while if the de- 
cayed portions are left on the plants a part 
or the whole plant may sooner or later be 
involved with the decay. 



Cost of Setting Out Spineless Cactus 

In Europe cactus has been set out by 
hand labor, and the cost is estimated to 
be about $5.00 per acre. 

One man can set out 1000 slabs a day 
in ground previously well prepared. In a 
country where traction engines can be 
used and large tracts set out, the cost 
should not exceed $5.00 per acre. 

Cultivation 

Cultivation during the first season or 
two is of advantage to cactus, especially 
on dry ground. Irrigation is sometimes 
permissible after they get a good start, but 
not until they are well rooted. Cactus will 
thrive with one-tenth the water which al- 
falfa requires. 

When to Harvest 

One of the principal features of the 
cactus is that they can be allowed to grow 
year after year until needed in a dry sea- 

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HARVESTING CACTUS 
The Crop Has Been Cut from Plants in Foreground, Which Will Immediately Start a New 
Growth, Crop after Crop thus Being Produced Indefinitely from the Original Plant 



son, or in case of a shortage of feed, then 
can be harvested by the wholesale. On 
good land more tons of it can be obtained 
per acre than on fire to ten acres of other 
forage. In harvesting for ordinary, reg- 
ular feeding, it is well to cut off the top 
and side leaves with a long knife, hatchet 
or other tool, and feed to the stock as 
needed. It may be fed at any season of 
the year without regard to season — sum- 
mer or winter, spring or fall. 

Yield 

The first season, if cuttings are set out 
early in the season, say June, each should 
make five to ten or fifteen new cuttings. 
The second season twice as many as that, 

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and the third season three times as many. 
The cuttings may be replanted as soon as 
they are hard and thoroughly ripened. 

How to Feed to Live Stock 

Cattle or any kind of horned stock are 
especially fond of the cactus, but as with 
all other new feeds, some refuse at first, 
but soon learn to eat it greedily. It is 
best fed to them either whole, or better 
still, the slabs may be rapidly run through 
a cutter and a little bran or sprinkling of 
meal will induce those animals to eat 
it that do not at first understand it. Poul- 
try are also fond of it and will seat it at 
once, if it is sprinkled as for stock, and 
afterwards greedily for green feed. Hogs 




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invariably like it when used to it. It is 
particularly valuable for growing animals 
and or milch cows, as it increases the 
quantity and improves the flavor of milk 
at once. But cactus, like almost all other 
food, requires other food with it. It is 
quite succulent and moist, and some dry 
alfalfa or other hay is excellent, or a little 
oil meal, bran or even dry weeds. It has 
the same effect on cattle or growing ani- 
mals as green feed of any kind, but does 
not bloat animals like alfalfa. 

Harvest 

There is no occasion to harvest the cac- 
tus before hand, because it is always in 
good condition. There is no occasion for 
storing it, because it is always good from 
January 1st to December 31st. 

Like all other crops that are worth cul- 
tivating, it should be fenced. No crop 
worth growing can be grown other- 
w^ise. If it is good, animals soon find 
it out, as they will every other crop 
that is raised for them. They should never 
be turned loose in the cactus patch; no 
one would turn stock into a beet or pump- 
kin patch, as they would injure the plants. 
They would also injure cactus plants, for 
they would greedily eat their tops, stems, 
roots and branches. 



Fruiting Cactus 

Fruiting cactus is planted just the same 
as forage cactus, except that it should be 
planted a little wider apart, as they grow 
to an enormous size and live to a great 
age, and it is well to keep them pruned 
low. They will spread so that if planted 
three feet apart in the narrow rows and 
twelve feet apart in the wide rows they 
can be harvested most conveniently. The 
fruit is at its best during September, Oc- 
tober and November, though some va- 
rieties continue to bear throughout the 
winter and spring, in fact, throughout the 
entire year. 



How to Prepare and Eat the Fruit 

Do not handle with the bare hands. 
Take each fruit on a fork and with a sharp 
knife cut off both ends, and, still holding 
the fruit by the fork, cut through the peel 
avoiding the little bundle of bristles ; then 
with the knife push the peel from the oval- 
shaped mass of pulp within. Cactus fruit 
is very wholesome and nourishing and can 
be eaten in great quantities with benefit. 
The seeds are to be swallowed as with to- 
matoes. The fruit is much more delic- 
ious when cold. 



"Burbank's thornless cactus is now being 
cultivated at Kiamuki, and plants are being 
taken from there and sent to the other islands. 
This new form of cactus is growing well and 
there are hopes that it will grow rapidly on 
the other islands, especially in the cattle dis- 
tricts. 

"As a food product the cactus appeals to 
cattle as one of the most attractive foods 
found in the pasture lands. Even the thorny 
cactus is eaten by them." — "Commercial Ad- 
vertiser," Honolulu, T. H. 



"That the Chamber of Commerce of the city 
of San Diego does most heartily endorse the 
efforts to spread the new Burbank fodder, 
thornless cactus, throughout the Southwest, 
thereby rendering highly productive vast areas 
of arid and semi-arid lands, and thus still 
further demonstrating the agricultural import- 
ance of this section of the country." — Resolu- 
tion adopted by San Diego Chamber of Com- 
merce. 



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House of Representatives, United States. 
Part of Cong. Record. 

LUTHER BURBANK AND HIS WORK 

From the Speech of 

Hon. Everis A. Hayes 

of California 

In the House of Representatives. 

SPINELESS CACTUS 

No more important thing has recently oc- 
cured in agriculture than the successful produc- 
tion of the rapid-growing, edible spineless cac- 
tus by Luther Burbank. After sixteen years of 
expensive and costly experimentation he has 
produced a new and most valuable cattle food 
for the world. For many years it has been 
the custom in Africa as well as in those parts 
of America where it abounds, to feed to cat- 
tle certain varieties of the prickly pear cac- 
tus after the spines have been burned off. This 
burning, of course, greatly increases the cost 
of fodder. The food value of this spiny cactus 
for stock has been known by cattlemen, who 
have grown and used it for some years. 

Mr. William Sinclair, a successful cattle- 
grower of Texas, writes: "We find it very poor 
policy to put the slightest limit on the amount 
of cactus our cows get. The more they can 
eat the better they thrive and the more milk 
they give. There is nothing that sets them 
back more than a shortage of cactus. If we 
happen to be short of milk the cause is almost 
invariably traced to the shortage of cactus." 

The great desirability of the rapid growing 
and edible spineless cactus for cattle food has 
been recognized all over the world. 

Of all stock food, the Burbank improved 
spineless cactus is by far the most prolific. 



It is adapted to almost any soil where the 
temperature does not go below 18 degrees 
above zero, and it will stand a great amount 
of heat. 

Cactus is the only fodder that furnishes 
green, succulent feed all the year. 

Another source of great value in the Bur- 
bank improved spineless cactus is its fruit. It 
is a fall and winter fruit of attractive colors — 
crimson, scarlet, yellow, white and variegated. 
It is a sure bearer; a good packer and shipper; 
very healthful, and of a flavor which many 
prefer to that of bananas or figs. It contains 8 
per cent to 15 per cent of sugar; is a great fat- 
tener for hogs and cattle. Poultry also is ex- 
tremely fond of it. 

These make fine jellies, jams and glace fruits, 
and can be used for coloring ices, jellies, con- 
fectionery, and so forth. 

In an experimental way, from the Burbank 
improved spineless cactus, paper pulp and 
wood alcohol have been produced. But the 
greatest value of Burbank improved spineless 
cactus will be that it will make highly pro- 
ductive and valuable vast tracts of land now 
barren because of insufficient rainfall, not only 
in Southern California and Arizona, the natu- 
ral home of the cactus, but also in South Amer- 
ica, Australia, India, Egypt and elsewhere. 

For example, are large tracts of land prac- 
tically bare and worth but $10 to $15 per acre. 
The annual rainfall is about five or six inches 
— making the land semi-arid. On this soil, 
without irrigation, is produced enough, with a 
few pounds of chopped straw, bran or other 
roughage, to keep four cows per acre all the 
year. This same land, when so situated that 
it can be irrigated and planted to alfalfa, keeps 
about one cow per acre annually and is now 
selling for $200 per acre. In other words, Bur- 
bank improved spineless cactus will give $15- 
an-acre land a greater earning power than al- 
falfa on $200-an-acre land. 



Alexandria, Egypt, April 23, 1908. 

"Please be kind enough to send us offer for 
one or more varieties of plants and the amount 
of money we will have to send to you for post- 
ing a lot of leaves to Egypt. 

"His Highness, the Khedive, is keenly inter- 
ested in the question of your Opuntias and will 
be glad to see a success of our future experi- 
ments." — Charles Chevalier de Blumencron. 

SAMPLES OF VARIOUS COMMENTS ON 
THE WORK. 
"Mr, Burbank's first publication on economic 
cacti serves to set at rest many groundless sup- 
positions as to the character of the work he 
has had under way for years on these plants. 
Some persons, forgetting that Mr. Burbank 
has made up to now no official announcement 



of his work, jumped to the conclusion that he 
had merely hit upon one of the common near- 
ly spineless forms of Opuntia Ficus Indica. 
Others more dishonest have been offering for 
sale so-called 'Burbank Thornless Cactus,' de- 
spite the fact that not a single plant or seed of 
Mr. Burbank's new creations has left his 
grounds up to a few weeks ago. 

"Mr. Burbank was perfectly well aware at 
the inception of his work on the opuntias that 
there were many forms nearly thornless, and 
he has even brought to light one kind, grown 
in many countries, that has neither spines nor 
spicules. It is not of much value, however, as 
it is a rather small plant and not hardy. The 
new forms are much more rapid growers and 
are also more hardy." — Dr. Walter T. Swingle, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 
D. C. 



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Special Information 



So much has been written about the 
spineless cactus and so many are de- 
ceived with the old cheap, half-wild va- 
rieties which are so often offered as "Bur- 
bank's" or "just as good as Burbank's" 
that it seems necessary to have them dis- 
tributed direct from the originator and 
under correct descriptions so as to avoid 
as much as possible any misunderstand- 
ings, exaggerations or misstatements such 
as heretofore have been carelessly, igno- 
rantly or wilfully made. Utterly spurious 
"Burbank's Thornless Cactus" has been 
offered for sale by dishonest parties for 
six years or more, not only in America, 
but also in Europe, Africa and Australia. 

In producing these new Opuntias more 
than seventeen years and much thought, 
labor and capital have been expended, 
thousands of crosses have been made, and 
many hundred thousands seedlings and 
crossbred seedlings raised. The finished 
product is receiving a royal welcome 
everyw^here by those who know. 

Few of the cacti are of any economic 
value except the Opuntias ; of these there 
are more than one hundred and fifty spe- 
cies and innumerable varieties; all prob- 
ably originally natives of the Western 
Hemisphere and were cultivated by the 
Indians long before Columbus discovered 
America. No class of plants are more 
easily grown, soil is not of much import- 
ance, and cultivation almost unnecessary. 

The cactus yields big, luscious slabs, 
weighing from one to seven pounds each. 



which can be cut at any time, summer 
or winter. There is no particular harvest 
season, therefore, no necessity to harvest 
and store. 

The selection of ordinary Opuntia cut- 
tings is of some importance. Those who 
have grown them on the shores of the 
Mediterranean for hundreds of years al- 
ways select "bearing wood" if fruit is the 
object, and the least thorny and bristly 
leaves if a plantation is to be produced for 
forage; even some of the partially spiny 
ones may be made less so by careful se- 
lection of cuttings, but this labor is wholly 
useless since the new Burbank varieties 
are offered. 

When alfalfa was generally introduced 
about twenty years ago, many wiseacres 
declared it was "no feed for milch cows." 
Many declared alfalfa would bloat cattle 
to a dangerous degree and was wholly un- 
safe to feed. In some of the Eastern States 
alfalfa is now being introduced and is en- 
countering considerable prejudice, strange 
as it may seem. Agricultural colleges are 
sending lecturers abroad for the purpose 
of educating farmers in the use of alfalfa. 
Yet to-day the value of land planted to 
alfalfa alone in California represents many 
millions of dollars. 

It has been proved that the poorest of 
the Burbank spineless cactus varieties 
are so far superior to any of the old half 
thorny ones that no comparison with 
them can fairly be made. 



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Our New San Francisco Headquarters 

With the establishment of new headquarters at Market and Beale Streets, 
San Francisco, The Luther Burbank Company enters the general seed and, 
nursery field with every improved facility for meeting the general demand 
in these two lines. 

The ground floor of their new building in San Francisco is devoted to 
the salesrooms, a continuous exhibit of original Luther Burbank creations and 
the most complete lines of spineless cactus, seed and nursery productions in 
the West. The executive offices are located on the second floor. 

Owing to the increased interest in original Burbank creations, a constantly 
changing Burbank horticultural exhibit is maintained in the new headquarters. 
As the fruiting or blossoming periods arrive, specimens are brought from the 
Company's various proving grounds, nurseries and seed farms and attractively 
displayed in the store. On account of the extensive window space on both 
Market and Beale Streets and the unique interior arrangement, this store is 
one of the great horticultural attractions in the United States. In reality it is 
a continuous Burbank exposition. As an adjunct of this exhibition, a new 
feature has been introduced — the Stereopticon Hall, where are shown Burbank 
novelties by direct color photographs in connection with stereopticon 
projections. 

A service department is also installed, at the head of which are men of 
wide experience in practical horticulture. Their advice, which is given gratui- 
tously, extends to every phase of the growing of fruits and flowers, as well as 
the difficult problems in landscape gardening. 

None the less instructive is the display of original Luther Burbank Spine- 
less Cactus. A visit to this store by anyone interested in practical horticulture 
or floriculture cannot help but prove of great interest and practical value. 
The comfort and convenience of all visitors has been provided for in every 
way, especially out-of-town visitors, by the installation of a reception bureau. 
You are cordially invited to visit us in our new business home. 



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How to Order 

Wherever it is possible to do so, use the order blank. 

Fill out all the information that the blank spaces call for. 

Be sure to write your name plainly. Give postoffice where you 
receive your mail, including county name. State plainly the town 
or point where you receive your freight. 

Give the name of the railroad or express company from which 
you receive your freight. State whether to ship by freight or express 
In the absence of specified instructions, we shall use our judgment. 

Usually orders will be shipped by freight unless otherwise speci- 
hed. An exception to this rule will be where the package is small, 
when it may be shipped by express. No shipments are made by mail! 

You will be notified of shipment. Allow a sufficient length of 
time for the package to arrive, and then if it does not arrive notify 
the railroad or express company, showing the bill of lading. Also 
notify us by mail and we will send a tracer after it. 

We are not responsible in any manner after we have delivered 
the shipment in proper condition to the carrier. We will do all in 
our power, however, to straighten out any difficulty. All claims for 
defective or damaged goods must be made immediately upon receipt 
of same. 

Nothing will be sent C. O. D. 

a j^*[*'®"^i"ances must be either postal orders, bank drafts or cer- 
tihed checks, properly made out to this company. 

No agent or representative of The Luther Burbank Co. has 
authority to make special terms or to vary the printed conditions or 
statements as contained in this or other catalogs or publications 
issued by this company. All special conditions or arrangements 
must be taken up with and confirmed by the officers of the com- 
pany at the general offices only, in San Francisco. 

We do not warrant in any way, express or implied, the con- 
tents, or the description, quality, productiveness, or any other mat- 
ter of any seeds, bulbs, plants or trees sold by us and we will not in 
any way be responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not 
accept these goods on above terms, no sale is made thereof, and 
he must return them at once, and money will be refunded."*^ 

The Luther Burbank Company 

GENERAL OFFICES 

Burbank Building, Market and Beale Streets 
San Francisco, California 

^''Standard form of guarantee adopted by leading seedsmen and nnrserymen 

of the United States. 



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A WARNING 

MANY new trees, plants and seeds are grossly misrepresented by a few 
dealers who trade on the reputation of reliable firms, often doing a thriving 
business by selling trees and plants in localities where they very well know that 
they cannot thrive ; this and the substitution of inferior or wholly worthless trees 
or plants under the name and reputation of good ones has been, and is now 
being carried on persistently and systematically by several parties who victimize 
those who deal with them by trading on the reputations of reliable firms and 
good trees and plants. 

An especially cruel form of this is the persistent pushing of the Spineless 
Cactus, Crimson Winter Rhubarb, and other tender plants for cold climates, which 
cannot live where the ground freezes an inch in depth. 

It should be the duty and privilege of every good citizen to aid in exposing 
and routing all who are obtaining money under these false pretenses. 

Having been in business almost forty years, millions of trees and plants 
raised in my establishment are now bearing fruit, not only in the Western United 
States, but everywhere on earth where the sun shines and trees can be grown. 
Does this forty years' record of just dealing mean anything, and is it surprising 
that such a reputation should be worth trading on? Counterfeit coins arc not 
counterfeited — // is the genuine ones that are misrepresented. 





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